February 7, 2025
Allegra Abramson, postdoctoral fellow at Temple Law’s Center for Compliance & Ethics, discusses the current administration’s changing stance on cryptocurrency following the launch of President Trump’s meme coin.
July 15, 2024
Duane Morris’ Lawrence J. Kotler, Seth A. Goldberg (LAW ‘99) and Ryan Spengler discuss the effect rescheduling cannabis might have on cannabis company bankruptcies.
February 28, 2024
Devon Roberson (LAW ’19) and several Dechert attorneys recap significant SEC reforms on money market funds and private liquidity fund reporting.
December 4, 2023
On November 14, 2023, Temple Law School hosted a Live Online Continuing Legal Education (CLE) Program, “The Economics of Immigration: How Current Law Does Not Meet the Reality of Modern Business in the U.S.,” led by Jonathan Grode (LAW ’08), U.S. Practice Director of Green and Spiegel, LLP. Grode highlighted the disconnect between modern US immigration law and America’s evolving economic needs across various industries. US immigration law is an issue that, despite demographic necessity and a few abortive reform attempts, has been largely overlooked by successive administrations. Professor Grode offered potential solutions for building more effective, rational immigration laws based on micro- and macro-economic factors.
October 4, 2023
Jillian Taylor (LAW ’16) of Blank Rome authored an article discussing the rise of artificial intelligence in the creation of creative works. It also looks to analyze whether and how such works may be protected under copyright laws.
July 26, 2023
Hannah Travaglini (LAW ’21) of Montgomery McCracken outlines the newly introduced tax regulations and deductions for the New Jersey cannabis industry.
Professor Rafael Porrata-Doria’s article ALBA and UNASUR: Back to the Future?, originally published in the Santa Clara Journal of International Law in May of 2022, discusses efforts at creating a unified Latin American region through the lens of different regional trade integration attempts. It briefly examines MERCOSUR and the Andean Group and how these two efforts failed to achieve promises made under the free trade model of the Washington Consensus. It then analyzes another effort, ALBA, tracing its history, development, organizational structure, and institutions and illustrating ALBA’s failure to achieve its goals. It next examines UNASUR, tracing its origins, mission, organizational structure, institutions, and specialized councils. Finally, Professor Porrata-Doria addresses how the failures of both ALBA and UNASUR to achieve their goals or even survive underscores several important lessons for economic integration organizations.
Three former Directors of the SEC Division of Enforcement, all Temple Law alumni, discussed developments from insider trading to crypto scams and the evolution of securities enforcement past, present, and future at a roundtable moderated by Professor Tom C. W. Lin.
Jonathan Broder, former GC of Conrail and current Temple Law Adjunct Professor, discusses the growing movement to regulate Big Tech as public utilities and the obstacles to doing so.
There was a perception in 2017 when then President-elect Trump took office that white collar enforcement actions under the US Department of Justice (DOJ) might drop dramatically. Many expected the Republican administration to effect policy changes or resourcing decisions that would keep corporations out of the spotlight when it came to major investigations and massive penalties. But, in surveying the last four years, the opposite happened.